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Create Adding a source code server few make steps to work with Mozilla's current symbol serverwrap this process would help everyone. This will allow users is a very easy project to do full debugs of nightly release builds with access tackle but very benefitial if the time and love is given to remote symbols and full source codeit.
== Port canvas3d to non-Windows platforms ==Reference: armenzg
ResourcesReference: Cathy, Vlad.armenzg - Bug 498641
Many open source projects rely on bugzilla Modify Thunderbird so that it uses the correct SMTP server for bug trackingyour current network and IP. In other words, if you are at home, use your home ISP's SMTP, and open source developers but if you use different instancesa school wireless network, forcing them switch to the school's SMTP. These various SMTP configurations should be manually controlled by the user, that is, you don't have multiple loginsto try and figure out which SMTP to use. Complete OpenID support Rather, it should be configurable in bugzillaan options dialog.
== Full-Text History Search extension ==
Firefox3 probably won't ship with support for full-text history search, even though url-bar autocomplete (with urls/titles) is a really great feature/idea. Write an extension in order to add this feature.
References: http://skrul.com/blog/projects/xpclucene/== <strike>XULRunner Application Packaging ==
Use the canvas element in order to create a generic front-end for data visualization of the Mozilla source. Many types of information about the Mozilla project can be keyed to the source tree. For exampleResources: plasticmillion, file change-ratesmfinkle, code-coverage#mozpad, bug activity per module, checkins per module, etc. The visualization will be a heatmap, showing certain types of activity in the tree. Doing this visualizaiton using canvas3d would allow for a third axis, and changes over time to be shown.#prism</strike>
Create a data-source Add the possibility to compact the database for local storage calendars based on SQLite using the VACUUM command. At the moment the Mozilla Tree Visualization projectlocal database for events and tasks will not get smaller even if you delete your tasks and events. This means data mining cvs.mozilla.org, bugzilla.mozilla.orghas serious performance implications for people, bonsai.mozilla.org and preparing the data for use in who work a heatmap visualizationlot with their calendar.
Firefox sometimes gets a bad reputation for crashing or locking up when a plugin such as Adobe Flash or Windows Media Player causes the problem. Add code to Firefox (or write an extension) so that when a plugin misbehavesResources: ctalbert, a dialog is presented informing the user so that they can take corrective action (disabling the plugin) or filing a bug with the right party (this warning could be similar to the warning that appears when a JS script daniel in a web page hogs too much CPU time#calendar on irc. As a minimum it should identify that a plugin is to blame; better would be to inform the user of the plugin's name; best would be to provide an option to temporarily disable the plugin)mozilla.org
Not enough is understood about the various communities and companies who develop with Mozilla, as opposed <strike>Write an extension to those who work on leverage the Mozilla existing spellcheck code itself. A proper survey needs to be conducted in order Mozilla and add the ability to find out which APIs are being used and how, what is hard, what could be improved, etchighlight spelling mistakes for a given web page (i. The [http://wwwe.mozpad.org Mozilla Platform Application Developers] is interested in changing this, vs. Their goal is to work with the Mozilla development community to survey, understand, and document the current state of the arta textbox). In this project you will work with the mozpad community to connect with projects</companies in orbit around Mozilla and do interviews with their developers. You will then document this information.strike>
* References: http:== <strike>Modify Firefox to handle files downloaded to Temp more appropriately <//www.mozpad.org/doku.php?idstrike>==actionitem:documentation_proposal* See also: http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/06/xulrunner-wishlist/ and http://www.songbirdnest.com/node/1826* Contacts: plasticmillion
== Localize Mozilla ==<strike>Often files downloaded by the browser are put in a temporary folder that is emptied on close. Users (and especially novice users) should be protected from inadvertent data loss as a result of important files being saved to this temp folder. This project will add fixes to the browser so that users are protected. Ideas include:
Join a localization team * Make Firefox aware of common productivity file types (see http://developere.g., .mozilladoc, .org/en/docs/Localizationpdf) and help localize Mozilla into whitelist these types so they aren't deleted* Have office type files download automatically to a language other than English, for example, [http://blogdocuments folder instead of temp* Firefox could check the timestamp of such files and delete them only if the timestamp is the same as when it was originally saved by the browser (i.mozillae.com/ligong/2007/07/11/firefox, has not been edited)* Warn the user on closing the browser that files are going to be removed* Assuming files still exist on start-cnup (see above), alert the user that these files are still there (similar to "New Session or Restart Existing?" dialog)* Have the browser pop-localization-liaison-group-started/ Chinese].up a Save As dialog instead of automatically saving to temp, and use a documents path
== Testing Other ideas are possible, and a combination of Canadian Banking and Financial Sites in Mozilla ==these might be necessary. Ultimately, this fix should target regular users without much knowledge of the filesystem.</strike>
This project will focus on improving the user experience at banking and other financial sites for Canadian Mozilla users. This includes determining which sites are relevantResources: ted, insuring proper behavior for Firefox 3 on these sites, etc.mfinkle
ReferencesSee also: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280419 bug 280419] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369108 bug 369108], and code [http://qualitymxr.mozilla.org/nodemozilla-central/source/uriloader/exthandler/293nsExternalHelperAppService.cpp#2077 here].
Write an extension to allow the user to pick hisMozilla uses several systems for [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla_automated_testing automated testing], including [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mochitest Mochitest], [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla_automated_testing#Reftest Reftest], [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/her own favicons for sitesWriting_xpcshell-based_unit_tests xpcshell unit tests], based on a URL regexpand [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla_automated_testing#Crash_tests crash tests]. The image should get stored as part of the user’s profileCurrently, to run these test suites or develop new tests, so that it doesn’t have you need to live in build your own Firefox with --enable-tests, and run the same place on tests from the user’s diskobject directory. Ideally, it should also there would be possible to export the regexp -> icon mapping as a regexp -> data URI mapping standalone package available for download that can be imported into another profilewould let you run these test suites against any Firefox build, to ease development of new tests and allow more people to get involved with automated testing.
This project will add instrumentation to Mozilla in order to determine how much time is spent away from the main event loopUnlike many open source projects, and therefore from the userit's mouse/keyboard input. When the user does something, how long does it take for Mozilla not possible to act on that stimulus? One thing that sometimes interferes with interface responsiveness is spending too long away from do a CVS checkout and build the main event loop, perhaps in layout or some other intensive computationcode. This leads is due to new events from the usercomplex module and version combinations necessary to get and build a particular product, such as mouse clicks or keypresses, not being noticed and acted uponfor example Firefox. This could also be expanded in order to include the triggering of log points and specific dialog openingsTo accomplish this, etcMozilla uses [http://mxr.mozilla. with org/seamonkey/source/client.mk client.mk], which provides a view to understanding what set of rules for getting and building the long-running events actually arecode.
References: http://shaverIncreasingly, Mozilla is moving toward using the Python based buildbot system for automated builds and tests. It would be good to add a Source class for client.offmk checkouts.net/diary/2007/08/25/tbeachball/ This would mean creating a a general Source class that understands the idea of checking out a file, and which could then be used to drive the checkout and http://shaver.offallow for integration with client.net/misc/latency-tracing-patchmk.txt
== Mozilla Developer Virtual Appliance ==References: Ben Hearsum (bhearsum), Rob Helmer (rhelmer)
Create a Linux-based virtual machine with all == Port the necessary build, development, and testing tools necessary for working on Mozilla. This virtual appliance would be targeted at developers not familiar with the Mozilla toolchain and wanted Firefox Release Repackager to get started.other platforms ==
== Add support The [http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/release-repackager/ Firefox Release Repackager] allows one to take a released version of the browser, deconstruct it in order to add some custom extension, then repackage it. This allows organizations to ship slightly modified versions of stock releases, useful for more compilers to distcc ==their users. Currently the repackager only works on Mac.
An earlier project [[Adding Compilers Port this tool to Distcc|added multi-compiler support to distcc]], Windows and then [[Distcc With MSVC|MSVC support]]/or Linux. The framework is now in place In order to support even more compilersdo this you'll need platform binaries of 7zip, or perhaps you can use P7zip to do a cross platform version. Add support There are other ideas that can be added to this tool as well for another compiler, perhaps Java, C#, or something elsemaking it more flexible.
Necessary SkillsResources: Cmkaply, Python, Makefilebsmedberg
The recent work to add [[Distcc With MSVC|MSVC support]] Microsoft's debugger allows the use of a symbol server, which it can use to distcc works using the cygwin build environmentdownload debugging symbols for programs and libraries. However, since this project was completed, Mozilla has switched to MSYS (see the [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Windows_Build_Prerequisites Using_the_Mozilla_symbol_server Mozilla Win32 provides this] for nightly and release builds on Windows, and it's useful for people to debug their crashes locally without having to build a debug build docs). Port distcc This functionality doesn't exist for Linux or OS X, where gdb is the debugger. gdb does support loading debug symbols from external files, so that it works with could probably be extended to look for the new MSYS environmentsymbols on a web server first.
== Add Multi-File transfer to distcc ==Resources: ted, Stan Shebs, Jim Blandy
The recent work to add [[Distcc With MSVC|MSVC == gdb support]] to distcc only allows for a single file to be sent back from build slaves. This means that extra minidumps for post-mortem debugging info (e.g., .pdb files) cannot be sent with binaries. Modify distcc so that it can support debug Mozilla builds.==
References: Cesar Microsoft's debugger allows for loading a minidump produced during a crash and Tomthen performing post-mortem debugging. GDB supports using core files for the same purpose. In Firefox 3, we produce minidump files on all of our supported platforms for use with our Breakpad crash reporting system. Sometimes people may want to debug a crash locally using one of these minidumps. On Windows, using the symbol server, they can simply load the minidump in their debugger. Currently there is no equivalent on Linux or Mac. Extending gdb to support loading minidumps for post-mortem debugging would be useful. This project may rely on the gdb symbol server project to be truly useful.
== Add password managers for various platforms ==References:# http://code.google.com/p/google-breakpad/source/browse/trunk/src/google_breakpad/common/minidump_format.h# http://www.codeproject.com/KB/debug/postmortemdebug_standalone1.aspx# http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb_3.html#SEC7# http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb_9.html#SEC80
Previous work was done on adding [[OS X Keychain integration]] to Firefox. This work was focused on tightly binding C++ and Mac API calls. Since then more work has been done to [httpResources://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/2007/05/28/followup-password-manager-changes-coming-in-ff3-alpha-5/ modularize the password manager] in Firefox. Various platform "keychains" need to be integrated with the new system. See bugs [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309807 309807]ted, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106400 106400]Stan Shebs, and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371000 371000].Jim Blandy
Currently Make it possible to look for bugs across old nightly builds of Firefox using automated tools. For example, [http://db48x.net/regression-search/ regression-search] is a script that allows you to do binary searches across binaries, looking for the Password Manager in Firefox uses existence of a signons2bug.txt file This could be improved through the use of tools like [http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/coscripter/browse/about co-scripter]. Convert this so that it uses a SQLite DatabaseIdeally the user could look for bugs in automated ways, without having to download and install tons of browser versions.
ReferencesResources: dolskedb48x, ted
Firefox 3 will support offline abilities"Specifically, such that web developers Mozilla has a great system called “try servers” where one can write their apps so they work even when no network submit patches against the tree, and the build system runs builds on Linux, Mac and Windows, using those patches, then serves those builds for testing. This is presentreally helpful to figure out if proposed patches solve specific problems... Good headway has been made already The only problem is that there’s a little bit of patching needed to the try server code itself to make it able to work with other targets besides Firefox, as described in bug 431375" ([http://wwwascher.bluishcoder.co.nzca/blog/2008/200705/02/offlinethunderbird-team-zimbraneeds-withhelp-from-pythonperl-build-firefox.html porting Zimbra]. Pick another web app and add offline support, for example: [http:assist//moodle.org MoodleAscher].)
Modify == Help gristmill move forward in Thunderbird so that it uses the correct SMTP server for your current network and IP. In other words, if you are at home, use your home ISP's SMTP, but if you use a school wireless network, switch to the school's SMTP. These various SMTP configurations should be manually controlled by the user, that is, you don't have to try and figure out which SMTP to use. Rather, it should be configurable in an options dialog.==
== Firefox Session Saver Extension ==TBD
Write a simple (i.e., nothing more than a simple "save session") extension to leverage the existing [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Session_restore_API Session Store API] in order to allow the user to save his/her currently open tabs and restore them. This is similar to what Firefox does when it unexpectedly crashes and gives the user the option to restore a previous session. NOTE: there are extensions that do this already, but many of them are more feature rich than need be. See also [http://www.beltzner.ca/mike/archives/2007/05/28/resurrect_your_session.html this blog post].== Help Calendar integration on Trunk ==
== Thunderbird Picture Preview ==TBD
Write an extension for Thunderbird that allows the user to start a slideshow preview of all images in the current message. The feature would work like thisResources: when a mail arrives with pictures attached, a button or some other UI is added to the message that allows the slideshow to begin. When clicked, the images are shown one after the other, properly scaled to fit in the window. Consider using [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Canvas_tutorial Canvas] to do the custom graphics, and take a look at [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/556 this existing Thunderbird extension] for ideas. Fallen
== [[Cross-Platform Mozilla Build Farm]] ==
Using the accumulated knowledge of the [[Extending the Buildbot|buildbot]] and [[Distcc With MSVC|distcc]] projects, and using the physical resources of [[Mozilla@Seneca Cluster Administration|Hera]], create a cross-platform distributed build system suitable for testing patches to Mozilla.
It's common for The Talos performance testing system at Mozilla currently runs on a developer to want to "watch" all large set of web pages pulled from the bugs that are filed in a certain [https://bugzillaAlexa Top 500.mozillaThese pages can't be redistributed, since they're mirrors of copyrighted web pages.org Bugzilla] componentIn addition, many of them contain adult content. Mozilla uses a convoluted and painful system of synthetic accounts This makes it difficult for people to simulate this capability, and we'd all really prefer duplicate the Talos results or to be able to do it more directly and with less opportunity for errortest changes that have an expected performance impact.
Reference: [https://bugzillaA useful solution to this problem would be a tool that takes a mirrored copy of a website and "sanitizes" it, by changing the page text and image contents (making them junk or filler text or something).mozillaThe caveat here is that this *cannot* change the performance characteristics of the page.org/show_bugFor example, taking a page that is all Chinese text and replacing it with "Lorem Ipsum" filler text would cause the page to take different text rendering paths, which would change what is measured. As another example, making all JPEG images solid black would likely make them decode and render much faster. Any solution should have some analysis performed that shows that performance is not significantly altered in the sanitized page set.cgi?id=76794 Bug 76794]
== Automated Testing ==Resources: ted (but find someone better!)
Programmatically driving == 3D object picking ==Canvas 3D JS Library is a library for the creation and manipulation of 3D scenes in the browser without needing to perform human-like tasks repeatedlyknow much 3D programming. The programmer will have Part of this project is to create a framework for driving browser components in JavaScript or other scripting language handle mouse input. This particular project looks at how to repeatedly test various pieces of the applicationperform "picking". Ideally That is, the successful completion of this task will see when given a test or suite of tests that can be invoked by command line to start coordinate within the browsercanvas, run return the test suites and then exit and record the results for display or analysis3D object at that location.
ReferenceResources: Work with Mozilla's Rob Campbell and Jay Patel from the QA Team. See also cathy, Andor (http://labswww.mozillac3dl.com/2007/09/coscripter/org)
We wanted to have an extension that would be able to serve users testcases to try and allow them to submit results to [http://litmus.mozilla.org http://litmus.mozilla.org]. We could expand the feature set of the extension to do a lot of other cool things with Bugzilla and Website Reporter integration. So we need some ideas there. If you're interested, you could consult the work of == [[User:djhamp-g|David Hamp-GonsalvesSample Project]], who created the Buggy Bar extension.==
== This is a sample project stub. You can use the template for [["Avoid loading the same page twice" ExtensionSample Project]] ==in order to create a project page for one of the stubs below. This is how you 'sign-up' for a project.
Create an extension NOTE: if someone has already created the project page, speak to Firefox this person and see if you can join them. If so that when a bookmark is clicked, and that site is already open in any tab in any window, that tab/window is brought simply add your name to the front rather than loading the '''Project Leader(s)''' page again. Otherwise, you can become a contributor later.
Related tech and skills: XUL, JavaScript== Generate an OOo XREF based on Dehydra ==
== Tinderbox front page improvements ==Using Dehydra, build OOo and generate an xref in the same way we are indexing for dxr.
[httpTODO://tinderboxmore info.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=Firefox Tinderbox] is a web app showing the results of multiple machines building Firefox, running unit tests on it, and running performance tests on it, all on three different platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac). The display is very crowded right now, and can be difficult to read. In addition, some of the interesting information (changes in performance, for example) are hard to notice. The tinderbox server software recently was updated to include [http://www.json.org/ JSON] output, which means that webpages can now easily access the data to build their own displays. Using this data, create a new display for the Tinderbox data that helps developers monitor the status of the builds and performance data.
* [httpResources://tinderbox.mozilla.org/Firefox/json.js Tinderbox JSON data]* [http://people.mozilla.org/~rhelmer/mockups/tinderbox/ajax.html An example page using the data]* [http://mavra.perilith.com/~luser/tboxtest.html Another example page using the data]. (Requires a [http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ recent Firefox 3 build])humph, taras
[httpFIXME ://buildbot.net/trac The BuildBot] is software for automatically building and testing other software. [http://aws.amazon.com/ec2 EC2] is Amazon's "Elastic Compute Cloud", a service that lets you run Virtual Machines the projects proposed on Amazon's computing grid using a web APIthe OpenOffice. It would org Education Project will be awesome if BuildBot had an EC2 module, and could spawn Virtual Machines on-demand adapted to perform tasks. Conveniently, BuildBot is written in Python, and there's [http://code.google.com/p/boto/ a Python library for interfacing with EC2]the current section.
References: Waiting we encourage you to have a look at the '''[http://jimmygwiki.services.openoffice.org/2007wiki/09Education_Project/01/amazon-ec2-for-people-who-prefer-debian-and-python-over-fedora-and-java/ Amazon EC2 Basics For Python ProgrammersEffort OpenOffice.org Education Project Effort page]'''
== Firebug "linting" for portability problems ==Other links:
Lots of web developers use Firebug and Firefox for building their applications, but we want those apps to work well in other browsers as well[http://wiki. services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project If Firebug knew about JS or CSS patterns that could cause problems in other browsers, it would make it much easier to have those applications work in all browsersOpenOffice.org Education Project on the Wiki]
== Add-on update helper tools for developers ==
As Firefox 3 gets ramped up[[User:Ericb|Ericb]] 21:05, there are nearly 3000 add-ons that need to get updated to some degree. Write tools 26 September 2008 (web or XULRunnerUTC) to look in add-ons and find things that developers will need to update. You'll want to work with the Mozilla documentation and evangelism teams to figure out what you're looking for and what to recommend to users.
= Introduction = This is a list of potential projects that need people. '''Students:''' If you'd like to work on one of these, move the chosen project to the [[Project List]] and create a page for your work based on the [[Sample Project]] template. '''<big>Working DraftOpen Source Community Members:''' We welcome your recommendations for potential projects. Please do not pick from create an account on this Wiki and create a description for your proposed project below. Please list until completedyour contact info (just an IRC or FAS2 name is OK) as well as links to any related web pages as Resources for the proposed project. (Questions? Ask [[user:Chris Tyler | Chris Tyler]] or [[user:David.humphrey | David Humphrey]]). = SBR600 Potential Projects = For possible projects for the SBR600 Software Build and Release Course, lease see the [[SBR600 Potential Projects]] page. = Potential Eclipse WTP Projects = See the list of potential bugs [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/report.cgi?x_axis_field=priority&y_axis_field=product&z_axis_field=bug_severity&query_format=report-table&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&classification=WebTools&product=WTP+Common+Tools&product=WTP+ServerTools&product=WTP+Source+Editing&product=WTP+Webservices&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=normal&bug_severity=minor&bug_severity=trivial&priority=P2&priority=P3&priority=P4&priority=P5&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&format=table&action=wrap&field0-0-0=assigned_to&type0-0-0=regexp&value0-0-0=.@ca.ibm.com&field0-0-1=noop&type0-0-1=noop&value0-0-1= here]. <!-- = Potential Fedora Projects = == [[Sample Project]] == This is a sample project stub. You can use the template for [[Sample Project]] in order to create a project page for one of the stubs below. This is how you 'sign-up' for a project. NOTE: if someone has already created the project page, speak to this person and see if you can join them. If so, simply add your name to the '''Project Leader(s)''' page. Otherwise, you can become a contributor later. == Ideas Pool == Lots of good ideas are listed in [[:fedora:SummerCoding/2008/big>'Ideas|Summer Coding Ideas (Fedora Wiki)]]. These projects were originally proposed for Google Summer of Code projects; if you want to use one of them, please discuss it with [[User:Chris Tyler|Chris Tyler]] before selecting it, because the scope and mentorship model for GSOC is different from that of the LUX projects. == Cobbler Web == Cobbler is a Linux install server that simplifies tasks associated with fully automated installation such as DHCP, DNS, kickstart, yum, and virtualization. It aims to be a universal install server for all linux distributions. Currently Cobbler has a web interface that allows users an easier way of interacting with cobbler. There are several core improvements that can be made. One idea is to extend cobbler web to produce views that make it easier for users to edit fields that only they edit (let me reinstall systems I own but don't show me fields I shouldn't care about). Another is to enable search features in the web app to make it tolerate thousands of systems to a better extent. Finally, another feature is to add a task engine to cobblerd, to make it possible to run commands like "cobbler import" and "cobbler reposync" in the background and see their output in the web interface via an AJAXy type system. Possible features are not limited to the above (or just working on the web interface), Cobbler has an ongoing RFE list in Trac that has a wide variety of potential ideas, and ideas beyond the ones listed are also fair game. See https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/report/1?sort=type&asc=1 Resources: http://fedoraproject.org/cobbler Contact: Michael DeHaan == Personal Koji Repositories == Koji Personal Repos (KoPeR) is a concept to allow Fedora maintainers to create personal repos of packages to build against and share with others. Resources: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating/KojiPersonalRepos Contact: Jesse Keating == Port Wubi to Fedora == If upstream is willing to integrate it, port wubi-installer and make it more cross distribution. Otherwise, provide a similar implementation for Fedora. http://wubi-installer.org/ == Delta RPM support in Koji build system == * https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/160 == Benchmark Nightlife Scalability Issues == Using Puppet, or some other management tool, create a grid of a dozen machines, then turn that into 12,000 machines. Address the network characteristics - how much bandwidth do you need on different components, the communication mechanisms - does UDP work at such a scale, the grid topology - what happens when two nodes are behind firewalls. Resource: [[:fedora:Nightlife|Nightlife wiki page]], Matthew Farrellee == Create Test Suite for Condor ==
Along with a good build infrastructure, a strong test framework and methodology is key to survival of modern software. Condor is a system that is shipped on, currently, 14 different platforms - OS + Arch combinations. New features need to be verified to work on all those platforms and shown to cause no regressions in other features. Condor has a large test suite, but no suite covers everything or in sufficient depth. Pick a few features, say the VM Universe or Concurrency Limits, and demonstrate full understanding of them by testing all of the corner cases. This is far from a simple task, and requires more than a cursory understand of the system to properly complete. Understanding the complex interactions of distributed components, common patterns exist across many distribute systems, as well as intimate interactions with the OS is key. Resource: [[:fedora:Nightlife|Nightlife wiki page]], Matthew Farrellee --- Below: Commented out by Chris Tyler 2008-08-31 -- I think we'll get all the students doing this. == Review Packages == There is a lot of packages in Fedora waiting for someone to review it. While a completely new Fedora contributor needs to be sponsored before his package is approved, subsequent packages can be reviewed and approved by any Fedora package maintainer. In addition to that, virtually anybody with a Red Hat Bugzilla account can do do unofficial reviews. Working through the review queue and doing this work might be fun and useful learning process for folks interested in RPM and packaging in general. The general process is described in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/HowToGetSponsored and in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines. === Review Requests == Introduction =
= Potential Mozilla Projects =
== [[Sample Project]] ==
NOTE: if someone has already created the project page, speak to this person and see if you can join them. If so, simply add your name to the '''Project Leader(s)''' page. Otherwise, you can become a contributor later.
== [[Mozilla Source and Symbol Server]] Improve Localization build system == Currently it requires many many steps to produce another language of Firefox.It would really easy to package these many steps to reduce the required knowledge to generate a new language.
== Create a cross-repo pushlog to see all locales's checkins ==We currently check many different repositories to trigger builds when a developer makes a change. We also check the localizer's repositories to see if they have pushed any changes. The canvas3d extension problem is a binary C++ component that adds we have close to eighty different localization repositories and that takes a 3D OpenGL drawing context long time to the HTML canvas elementcheck each one of them.If we had a joint view that would improve our systems. An example of that view is:https://l10n-stage-sj. Currently canvas3d works only on Windowsmozilla. Port org/pushes/but the code to Linux andformat should be more like this:http://or Mac OS Xhg. Porting involves implementing a pbuffer class mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushlogwhich is what our release engineering systems check for each new platform. Some familiarity with OpenGL, or a willingness This project would require you to hack hg and pushlog to learn make it, is requiredwork.armenzg has many blog posts explaining how to setup pushlog in your local machine.
== Add OpenID support to Bugzilla Thunderbird SMTP Auto-Sensing ==
References: see [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294608 bug 294608]#maildev
Help to develop an [http://www.mozpad.org/doku.php?id== Mozilla Tree Visualization ==application_build_system_project automated packaging system] for XULRunner applications.
== 'Compact databases' feature for Mozilla Data Visualization Back-ends calendaring applications (Lightning, Sunbird) ==
See also [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id== Plugin-watcher ==352976 Bug 352976]
== Improve Mozilla Application and Platform Documentation <strike>[[Spellcheck Extension for Arbitrary Web Pages]]</strike> ==
== My Favicons extension Standalone Test Harnesses ==
* References: http://blogxoatlicue.vlad1blogspot.com/archives2008/2007/08/10/15101/standalone-test-product.html* Possible Resources: Ben Hearsum
== Tbeachball - Quantifying Mozilla's Responsiveness Add source checkout to buildbot ==
== Port distcc to MSYS gdb symbol server support ==
References: Cesar # https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412722#c5# http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/objcopy1.html (see --add-gnu-debuglink and Tom--only-keep-debug)# http://www.totalviewtech.com/Documentation/Tips/gnu_debuglink.html
== Converting Password Manager Storage RegressionTry ==
== Add Offline Support Extend Try Server to an open source web app test Thunderbird patches ==
== Add DTrace probes and scripts for Mozilla code base == [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace DTrace] was created by Sun in OpenSolaris to allow developers to write simple scripts in order to probe and instrument executing programs in a way not possible otherwise. One of the advantages of DTrace is that it allows you to turn on probing when you need it, but not incur an execution penalty with regard to performance (i.e., when probes aren't being scripted, they aren't run). This requires developers to add "probes" to their source code. For example, if you wanted to know when a particular function is entered/exited, get info about what happened, etc. you could add probes to the particular function. Writing the probes is not difficult, however there are hundreds or thousands of probes that Mozilla would like across its code base. Resources: sayrer == Plugin Code Test Suite == Create a [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Plugins plugin] test suite. There are currently no tests of any kind, and this code is very brittle and not well understood. This would involve creating a plugin or set of plugins and some html/js to drive that plugin in order to push test coverage. Maybe look at the JRE tests, create some specific plugin cases (e.g., swf to load that tests flash specific code). The newly announced Google Chromium browser [http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/getting-around-the-chrome-source-code seems to have something like this] with regard to using the npapi for driving tests via plug-in. See also docs on [http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/inter-process-communication IPC] and [http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/plugin-architecture plug-in design] in Chromium. This will require C programming, as well as light web development (html, js, perhaps swf). Resources: jst == Create self-serve symbol upload system == Mozilla has a symbol server which is used by developers to debug issues in release builds that don't include debug information (i.e., symbols). However, many crashes are related to third-party binary plugins or extensions, for which Mozilla has no symbols. This project would create a web-based self-serve solution for third-parties to upload symbols for their binary components in breakpad-formatted .sym file format. Ideally this could happen in an automated way, such that third-parties could add a step to their build system to do it automatically with each release. See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419879 bug# 419879]. Resources: ted == <strike>Add OpenLayers test suite to Mozilla </strike>== <strike>Mozilla [http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/tests/mochitest/ajax/ uses] many common JavaScript library test suites to add additional coverage to it's JavaScript implementation. One test suite that is not currently used by Mozilla, but could be, is the [http://openlayers.org OpenLayer's] js [http://trac.openlayers.org/browser/trunk/openlayers/tests test suite]. See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399311 bug# 399311]. Resources: sayrer</strike> == <strike>Import sqlite test suite</strike> == <strike>Mozilla uses an embedded version of [http://www.sqlite.org/ SQLite] extensively to [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/storage store data] such as bookmarks, history, etc. To insure that it runs properly within Mozilla, it would be good to add the entire sqlite test suite to Mozilla's tests, so that testing the browser also means testing sqlite. The sqlite test suite is written in TCL and needs to be ported to JavaScript. Some [http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/storage/test/unit/test_like.js work has already been done], but more is required to get full test coverage. References: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391756 bug 391756], http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=368 Resources: sdwilsh </strike> Take : [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Import_sqlite_test_suite Park,KiWon] == Make chromebug work in Thunderbird SMTP Auto-Sensing == TBD
== [[Bugzilla component-watching]] HTML page set sanitizer ==
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== Buildbot and EC2 Existing Subjects proposed by OpenOffice.org Education Project ==